A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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